A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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